George S. Patton’s Most Powerful Quote About Going Into Battle and War Is Simple: ‘All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty’

George S. Patton’s Most Powerful Quote About Going Into Battle and War Is Simple: ‘All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty’

“All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” George S. Patton Jr. said it, then lived it in his finest hours: pivoting the entire Third Army, more than 250,000 men and hundreds of tanks, in atrocious conditions to break the siege of Bastogne after Eisenhower’s crisis meeting of December 19, 1944; beating Montgomery’s 8th Army into Messina by hours in August 19…